[android-developers] Re: Getting the manifest.xml of applications from the market?

2009-05-25 Thread brian.schimmel
Thank you for your answers! Based on the assumption that I already have the apk-file, your answers are very helpful, because I was not aware of the issue with the binary file format. I've tested the aapt command and it did what you said, which is ok. But my question should have asked how I can

[android-developers] Re: Getting the manifest.xml of applications from the market?

2009-05-21 Thread rollbak
That is not so simple, because manifest inside APK is converted to a binary file which format is unknown. On May 21, 2:52 am, Raphael r...@android.com wrote: APKs are simply zip files. If you have anAPK, you can read its manifest. R/ On Wed, May 20, 2009 at 1:49 AM,

[android-developers] Re: Getting the manifest.xml of applications from the market?

2009-05-21 Thread rollbak
The key on how to decode it is in SkBML_XMLParser.cpp On May 21, 6:51 pm, rollbak roll...@gmail.com wrote: That is not so simple, because manifest insideAPKis converted to a binary file which format is unknown. On May 21, 2:52 am, Raphael r...@android.com wrote: APKs are simply zip

[android-developers] Re: Getting the manifest.xml of applications from the market?

2009-05-21 Thread Dianne Hackborn
If you are running on a device, you can use the Java APIs to get and read the package and compiled XML files out of it. If you are running on the host side, aapt dump xmltree path to apk path to file inside apk will print out a not-at-all-XML-but-human-readable version of the binary XML file. On

[android-developers] Re: Getting the manifest.xml of applications from the market?

2009-05-20 Thread Raphael
APKs are simply zip files. If you have an APK, you can read its manifest. R/ On Wed, May 20, 2009 at 1:49 AM, brian.schim...@googlemail.com brian.schim...@googlemail.com wrote: Hi there, is there some way to retrieve the manifest.xml of an application from the market, without installing the